[Amended 10-26-2004 by Ord. No. 4842]
The purpose of this chapter is to provide standards
and regulations for various types of fire and burglar and other emergency
alarm devices, whether by direct line, radio, telephone or other means,
and requiring a response thereto by the Police Department of the Township
of Union.
[Amended 10-26-2004 by Ord. No. 4842]
The provisions of this chapter shall apply to any person, firm or corporation that operates, maintains, installs, repairs or owns any alarm device or local alarm designed to summon the Union Police Department to any location in response to any type of alarm signal. The terms of this chapter shall in no way prohibit alarm companies, persons, firms and/or corporations from providing service by private source to other dwellings or buildings within the Township of Union, so long as such activity is not connected to the alarm console at the Township of Union Public Safety Answering Point; except, however, that any person, firm or corporation having a premises protected by an alarm device shall still be responsible for the registration thereof in accordance with §
195-6 hereof.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
ALARM CONSOLE
The console or control panel or devices giving a visual or
audio response, or both, and localized within the confines of the
Public Safety Answering Point of the Township of Union.
ALARM SYSTEM
Any alarm device providing a signal to the Public Safety
Answering Point by any means, providing warning or intrusion, fire,
smoke, flood or other peril, or any other device, audible or otherwise,
resulting in public safety response.
ALARM INSTALLATION
Any alarm device or combination of devices installed for
one or more buildings at a location other than the alarm console.
CENTRAL STATION
An office to which remote alarm and supervisory signaling
devices are connected, where operators supervise the circuits, where
guards are maintained continuously to investigate signals.
CENTRAL STATION EQUIPMENT
The signal-receiving, recording or retransmitting equipment
owned and maintained by the central station.
CENTRAL STATION SYSTEM
A system in which the operation of electrical protection
circuits and devices are signaled automatically to, recorded in, maintained
by and supervised from a central station having trained operators
and guards in attendance at all times.
CHIEF OF POLICE
The Chief of Police for the Township of Union or his designated
representative.
[Amended 3-14-1995 by Ord. No. 4376]
DIALER ALARM
That type of device using telephone lines or radio alarms
or other means transmitting to the Township of Union Public Safety
Answering Point.
FALSE ALARM
The activation of an alarm system by inadvertence, negligence,
malfunction or unintentional act of someone, but does not include
alarms caused by hurricanes, storms or other climatic conditions,
and shall also include the deliberate activation of an alarm system
in order to test the alarm without prior notification to the Public
Safety Answering Point of the alarm test.
LICENSEE
The person obtaining the license to maintain the alarm console
as hereinafter set forth.
LOCAL ALARM
Any alarm or device which, when actuated, produces a signal
not connected to the alarm console or a central station, such as an
actuating bell device or any other type of audible or visual identification.
PERMITTEE
Any person owning, operation and/or maintaining an alarm
device or a local alarm within the scope of this chapter.
PERSON
Includes any natural person, partnership, corporation or
association.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Includes police, fire or emergency medical responders.
[Amended 3-14-1995 by Ord. No. 4376]
The Township of Union shall be under no obligation
to any permittee, subscriber, licensee or alarm console licensee hereunder,
the alarm console and allied equipment being maintained at will and
subject to termination at any time by cancellation of the system,
by resolution duly adopted by the governing body of the Township of
Union, and any individual permit issued hereunder may be revoked at
any time by the recommendation of the Chief of Police, provided that
30 days' notice is given, in writing, to said permittee by certified
mail.
Whenever, under the provisions of this chapter,
the designated representative is empowered to make a decision with
respect to the installation, operation and maintenance of any alarm
equipment or with respect to the issuance or denial of any application
relating thereto or in the imposition of any administrative charge,
any person aggrieved by said decision may, within 10 days following
said decision, file a written appeal therefrom with the Township Administrator
of the Township of Union, who shall conduct a hearing and affirm,
modify or reverse the decision appealed from. The decision of the
Township Administrator shall be final.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person, firm or corporation found guilty
by the Judge of the Municipal Court of the Township of Union for violation
of the terms of this chapter shall be subject to a fine of not more
than $2,000 or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 90 days or
a period of community service for not more than 90 days, or any combination
thereof.
The governing body reserves the right to revoke
any issued permit when the permittee continues to operate any alarm
system that continues to generate false alarms.
[Amended 10-26-2004 by Ord. No. 4842]
This chapter shall be enforced by the Township
of Union Police Department.